Costa Rica

Aria Christmas Carol 250g

dark chocolate · caramel · clementine

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Every price we hold for this coffee works out far outside the believable per kilo range for its own market, or repeats unchanged across different bag sizes, so we will not put a figure to it.

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How it sits among coffee from Costa Rica

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Costa Rica: 258 of 395 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

The Orkney Roastery describe this coffee as caramel and sweet, chocolate, citrus. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Costa Rica; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from Costa Rica, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All Costa Rica coffees

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Costa Rica

Process

honey

Not stated

region, farm or estate, producer, variety, altitude, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

Where each fact came from

Flavour families

We tried a few roast styles when this coffee arrived and we are watching, listening to and timing this particular coffee as it roasts so that it delivers its dark chocolate and caramel qualities with a fresh clementine fruit finish… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“This rare speciality coffee (with a SCA score of 84)is from the Palmichal Mill in Costa Rica.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

“The beans are honey processed and although the name has nothing to do with the taste, these coffees are known for their sweet flavours.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Cup score

“This rare speciality coffee (with a SCA score of 84)is from the Palmichal Mill in Costa Rica.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.